BotRevolt : Block Bot Connections in Windows

Bots are malicious software that infect your computer and let it be controlled by cyber-criminals remotely. When a bot malware like SpyEye, Zbot, Zeus etc., infect your computer they take over your PC and allow the cyber-criminals through a command and control center. The free software BotRevolt blocks the known IP addresses used by these bots and thus disrupts the bot activity for an infected Windows machine.

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CapsUnlocker : Automatically Unlock the Caps Lock

If you use Microsoft Word or some other text processor extensively at work then you know the irritable situation when you accidentally press the Caps Lock on your keyboard. One of my wise co-workers suggested that I should use a screwdriver to remove the Caps Lock key from the keyboard. CapsUnlocker is a free software that can automatically unlock the Caps Lock key after a few seconds. So even if you have accidentally or deliberately turned it on, it turns off after some time by itself.

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blinkx : Discover and Share Great Vidoes Online

The blinkx website is a beautiful way of discovering and sharing videos online. Unlike many other video sharing sites, blinkx presents you with an uncluttered, clean and powerful video search interface. While many other video sites are filled with low quality useless content, blinkx shows you high quality videos both in terms of the content and the resolution. It has videos arranged into multiple categories for easy browsing.

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Automatically Clear Cookies When You Close Chrome Browser

The cookies in any web browser are used to store the user data for different websites as well as the login information. This means that anyone who uses the Chrome browser on your PC would be able to access your online accounts on Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc. You can always manually clean the browsing history and cookies in the Chrome browser, but a better option is to automatically clean all the cookies when you close the Chrome browser.

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Use Palm Gestures to Control Music Playback in Windows

Music is the main reason why Apple iPod is so successful today. When listening to the music on your desktop or laptop computer, you have to use your mouse or keyboard to pause, play or skip to next track in your playlist. But now you can control the music by just making gestures with your palms using the free Flutter software. It lets you play, pause or jump to the previous or the next track by making palm gestures in a special way.

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Convert Video Formats Quickly with WinFF

When it comes to mentioning the open source tools for video or audio format conversion and trans-coding, the first name that comes to our mind is FFMPEG. But FFMPEG is a command line tool with too many command line parameters to remember. The difficulty involved in using this command line program is solved by an open source GUI for FFMPEG called WinFF. It is a free GUI for FFMPEG for Windows operating system and lets you easily convert any video file into formats supported by FFMPEG.

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How to Remove Sality Malware from Your PC

Sality is a family of polymorphic malware that has been around since 2003. It can infect all the executable files on your PC, connect to the internet through P2P mechanism to download more malware, setup malicious proxy servers on your computer, send spam to your contacts and so on. It uses advanced techniques to avoid detection. Fortunately some instances of Sality malware can be cleaned while other infected files which have been damaged beyond repair can be removed.

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How to Remove Virut Botnet Malware from Your PC

Virut is a botnet malware family that has been infecting computers since it first appeared in 2006. Through these years it has modified and updated itself with advanced anti-detection techniques so that it does not get caught by regular antivirus products. It uses many polymorphic and encryption techniques that make it so difficult to detect. But by using the right tools, you can detect and remove it from your system very easily.

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Bolide Slideshow Creator : Make Amazing Videos from your Photos

If you have come home after vacations, then you must be having a great many number of photos of the memorable moments. If you want to share them with friends, then you can make a slideshow video from your photos and upload it to Youtube. If you upload the video to Youtube, then you do not have to upload all pictures one by one, you can just upload one video and be done with it. You can use free Bolide Slideshow Creator to turn your photos into amazing MP4, MKV, AVI, WMV or FLV videos.

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